For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously